It never hurts to have inside information. That's why we ask our student reporters to get in touch with contest winners.
How did you do it? we ask. What would you do differently? we probe. Would you recommend this contest to others? we pry. Whose help was essential? we dig.
And then we post the answers here, for all to see. We recommend that editors of student newspapers look them over, copy them, combine them, extract from them -- in short, publish them in some form.
A little inside information may be all it takes to get students at your school interested in academic contests.